The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-29
which was loudly applauded.l


ernor, enacted by the members of the
Legislature, this amendment has been
submitted TO you. Stand up now, you
saloon men and drinkers and advocates
Of the traffic, in all your deformlty and
render an account Of yourselves.
Where are your white elephants. red
lights and hell's half acres? These
great leaders of anti prohibition have
nothing to say in defense of whisky or
the saloons. They dodge behind the
grapevine and play peek-a-boo. Come
out from behind the grapevine and
meet the issue squarely ana like men
The ants do not deny the evils of the
liquor traffic They make no attempt
to justify the liquor dealer. No, in
deed. What gave rise TO the interest
in the issue of to-day2 Why, don't
You know that the whisky trade is the
greatest monopoly on the face of the
earth? Statistics show the extent of
the liquor iraflc--they show that the
bar bill in America amounts to $780,
100000 per annum, such an amount as
would very soon remove the necessity
OF tariff or relieve this government of
its present Indebtedness. There are
fourteen millions of people who con-
siitute the drinking population of this
country SAT Al per capita.
This liquor traffic has grown until it
has become gigantic and when did 1t
start? The ants say it is modern
thing, just lately put on foot to take
away mans personal liberty. II is UNI
necessary to go back to the thirties
when the government prohibited the
sale of liquor to Indians, or to the
congressional act which established
ci yil government in Alaska and pro-
hibited the sale Of liquor in that do.
main. No man, Democratic or Re-
publ can, raised his voice in congress
against the prohibition clause. Is it
noble and chivalric to interfere with
the personal liberties of the people in
Alaska and not in Texas? When did
this great movement start in Texas?
Eleven years ago when the constitu-
ton was adopted, the people adopted
local option; prohibitory certainly;
and this movement is only carrying
out the principle for the whole state
When we were shaking off the CALLING
shackles of Republicanism, this was a
proposition Texans considered; petit
ton after petition has gone up to the
legislature TO be pigeon-holed until
the list got too long and the legisla-
lure and governor could no, say mo"
at will disntegrate the Democratic
party--it comes from Kansas" they
yell. at is fraud" AS a.
people we exercise our functions as
men. There are Republicans with the
ants; there are Republicans with us.
The Republican and Democratic par
ties are divided, as partisans, as wide
as the seas. but in This amendment we
go together; but you will find when
this election is over Democrats and
Republicans will drop back in their
old party lines as naturally ~ if moth
ing had happened. The "True Blues "
will only be too happy to take us back
into the fold---provided they still hold
that they are THE party. They can't
read us out Of the Democratic party.
Loud applause.]
Society has some inalienable rights.
Sumptuary law! If you can. 60 back
to Blackstone aud read what he says,
and then say it is sumptuary law, you
simply do violence to history and the
meaning of tue term. Most of the
able men of the anti-prohibition-
ssts have abandoned the plea
of sumptuary laws. If we wanted TO
champion the whisky traffic why
haven't they had more to say about
it l can tell you that many Of the
delegates who attended the True Blue
convention from my home returned
to it ardent prohibitionists. The NOR
al sentiment that underlies our poo
pie will prevail. Saloons can not
dominate America. Society has in
alienable rights. Bear that In mind.
Society has inalienable rights. They |
cry out in great agony that this pro
hibitory measure will bring state
and church together Why, the fact
of the business is that those who raise
this Mascedonian cry are not support
ers ofthe church, aud yet are distress
ed. because OF the unholiness OF it.
7 don't believe in politics in pulpits;
but the preacher bars dual relation
10 the people, and when he comes down
out of the sanctuary he has as much
right to his individual opinions as any
man. and he has the right to express
them, and he unquestionably has the
inalIenable right to use his influence
to swell the vote to as much as he can.
The union of Church and State!
know that the preachers do not desire
q union of church and state. They are
moro opposed to it than any others
could possibly be. Do you know that
one hundred years before Thomas
.Iefferson's time q Baptist preacher